Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy by David A. Crocker
This book is highly recommended to anyone who wants to know what development ethics has to offer, or who wants to engage with arguments on ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics by C. A. J. Coady
The principal and worthwhile contribution of this book is to resituate the debate about moral realism where it belongs, in terms of its pragmatic employment ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Edited by Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman
What is the contribution of religious discourse to a productive and reconciliatory response to mass atrocities? In this wide-ranging book, scholars address the philosophical, ethical, ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review
War, Torture and Terrorism: Rethinking the Rules of International Security Edited by Anthony F. Lang, Jr., and Amanda Russell Beattie
This volume provides a fresh and engaging set of discussions, approaches, and case studies on how rules established to promote peaceful international order can instead ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Review Essay
In Pursuit of Peace
Traditional international relations scholarship has concentrated on war, but has not provided deep theoretical consideration of the concept of peace.While the focus of each ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Feature
An Ethic of Political Reconciliation
The core proposition of this article is that reconciliation, both as a process and an end state, is a concept of justice. Its animating virtue ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Feature
Categorizing Groups, Categorizing States: Theorizing Minority Rights in a World of Deep Diversity
Kymlicka believes that it is Walzer's idiosyncratic approach to categorization—more than his controversial theory of justice-as-common-meanings—which explains his relatively marginal role in the ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Feature
A Few Words on Mill, Walzer, and Nonintervention
Comparing Mill's "Non-Intervention" and Walzer's "Just and Unjust Wars" (1977) links two classic statements on just wars of intervention. Doyle concludes that interventionist arguments should go ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Feature
The Moral Standing of States Revisited
"The Moral Standing of States" is the title of an essay Michael Walzer wrote in response to four critics of the theory of nonintervention defended ...
Winter 2009 (23.4) • Internal
Introduction [Full Text]
This symposium is comprised of three key articles from a 2008 conference to honor Michael Walzer. Each article discusses one of the most fundamental aspects of ...